In an effort to reduce the growing number of inmates with mental health and substance abuse problems in New York City’s jails, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Monday to significantly expand public health services at almost every
For the immigrant advocates who for years have been calling on President Obama to curtail deportations, the Secure Communities program symbolized what was wrong with the nation’s immigration enforcement strategy.
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Whatever the details of President Obama’s planned immigration overhaul, the stakes are particularly high for California.
The state has the largest number of people who are in the country illegally, and many have especially deep roots.
The changes could bring some form of legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants here and benefit two of the
Every time Berzabeth Valdez heads out to work from her mobile home on the outskirts of Houston, it crosses her mind that she might not come back.
Ms. Valdez, 48, is a Mexican immigrant who has been living in Texas for 11 years without legal papers, and
WASHINGTON — Millions of undocumented immigrants who are set to be granted a form of legal status by President Obama as early as this week will not receive one key benefit: government subsidies for health care available under the Affordable Care Act.
The number of homeless children across the Golden State rose last year according to results of a national report released Monday, especially in hard-hit Southern California, home to the nation’s second-largest school district.
Researchers with the National Center on Family Homelessness found that nearly 2.5 million American children were homeless at some point in 2013.
An advocacy group opposed to race-conscious college-admissions policies is urging federal courts to end their use around the nation through lawsuits filed on Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In contrast to the most recent challenge to such policies fielded by the U.S. Supreme Court—a lawsuit accusing the University
Sara Martinez never wanted her two daughters to grow up poor and anxious about life, the way she had in Ecuador. But that is what happened.
Ms. Martinez lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with her younger daughter, a United States citizen who was born not long after
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in California are more than twice as likely to be harassed or assaulted at school based on their sexual orientation than for their race or ethnicity and four times more than they would be for a disability, according to new survey data released this week.
The data, released Thursday, comes
Los Angeles County Public Defender Ron Brown walked into a Pomona court Wednesday and saw first-hand the impact of Proposition 47 — the voter-approved initiative that reduces penalties for drug possession and other nonviolent crimes.
